International Business Machines Corporation

Michael R Marsonet

Manvendra Gupta

Hagop Amendjian

Terrence A Paul

Thomas S Bergman

A method and associated system automatically migrates a non-cloud service from a legacy non-cloud virtualized computing environment into a cloud-computing environment. These methods and systems enhance standard cloud-management systems with the introduction of independent infrastructure-discovery and application-discovery tools. By autonomously examining the legacy non-cloud environment, these tools can produce information describing characteristics of the legacy service in sufficient detail to enable the cloud-management system to generate and automatically insert an entry for the legacy service into the cloud-computing environment's service catalog. When a user of the cloud-computing environment subsequently requests the non-cloud service, the cloud-management platform may then use the new entry to provision the legacy service as though it had been a standard cloud service.

Migrating legacy non-cloud applications into a cloud-computing environment

A method and associated system of automatically generating an entry of a service catalog of a cloud-computing environment as a function of discovered attributes of a virtual machine provisioned in a non-cloud computing environment. A cloud-management platform of the cloud-computing environment analyzes and compares results of infrastructure-discovery and application-discovery tools that describe a business application or a virtual service provisioned on the virtual machine. The cloud-management platform, or a related service-catalog generating entity, uses these analyzed and compared results to automatically generate a service-catalog entry that represents or describes a cloud business application or service associated with the virtual machine, and enters the automatically generated entry into the service catalog. When a user of the cloud-computing environment requests the cloud business application or service, the cloud-management platform may then offer the business application or service as a function of the automatically generated entry.

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Woodbridge, Canada

Michael R Marsonet